Chris Tomasini

Chris Tomasini lives in Ontario, Canada.

He is the author of Festival, a coming-of-age novella set in London, England, and Toronto, Canada. He is also the author of Close Your Eyes: A Fairy Tale, which won the 2022 Historical-Fantasy award from the Historical Fiction Company. Chris's book Within This Darkness, book one in the teen Douro-Zamość trilogy, was shortlisted for the 2025 Whistler Independent Book Awards in the fiction category.

In the 1990s Chris taught English as a Second Language and had stops in England, Poland, and Japan. Since 2000, Chris has worked in bookstores, publishing, and in libraries.

A chaser of sunrises, Chris can often be found on a bicycle or in a kayak, pointing a camera towards the rising sun.